We’ve already seen in ‘Collateral Murder’ several wars ago how these things happen.

Sure, there are already alternatives for everything from these companies. But the material and mental costs of migration are not insignificant, so many people shy away from this migration, even though they would actually much rather say goodbye to these tech giants today already.

Moving from WhatsApp to a different messenger, that’s already a big issue even today.

Here in Europe, there is a significant exodus of people who want to leave all Meta products behind because they do not support Meta’s close ties to the Trump/MAGA government or other reprehensible behaviors of these tech giants.

However, many people, especially older people, have difficulty with such a change, simply because they lack technical knowledge. Many also fear losing their network during such a move.

The psychological costs of such a migration shouldn’t be underestimated. There’s a lot of social inertia.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr has described in detail the specifics and background of how people are held hostage on these tech platforms.

That doesn’t make sense to me. While it’s true that most people do not have a conscious contact point with these companies on a daily basis, large portions of our modern societies would face a breakdown or a critical change, at least after several weeks, if these companies disappeared tomorrow.

Even if the hardware and structures would stay - the companies are needed to run and maintain that. Each of these companies has several ten thousand employees, they surely would notice a difference for a start, I guess.

The differentiation into two categories with two colors add additional information and make it even more interesting without diminishing the actual point of the visualization.

No, we’re not all in it together. The poor 90% of the world will pay most of the bill as always, while the rich are quite well-off. And the ultra rich live in their own realms.

And are there apps for normal desktop office work?

I’m surely not gonna use Google docs or Microsoft’s cloud clobber.

@dorisheldt@norden.social

Hm, ich lese in deinem allerersten Posting deinen Appell an ‘die Politik’. Von mir kam das also nicht.

Meine Kritik am wiederholten Posten von Immobilienanzeigen hier im Fediverse, einem explizit nichtkommerziellen Netzwerk, ignorierst du bisher.

Daher drehe ich den Kreis gerne nochmals auf den Hinweis und die Bitte, diese impertinenten Versuche, dieses Netzwerk für kommerzielle Absichten zu missbrauchen, zu unterlassen.

Es ist schade, wenn das hier als kostenloser Werbekanal ausgenutzt wird, und es dir erklärtermaßen nur um Reichweite deiner Werbung geht.

Damit ist meinerseits alles gesagt.

@dorisheldt@norden.social

Ja, das habe ich als eine Vermutung meinerseits geschrieben, da ich nicht erkennen kann, was deine Frage zur Kieler Förde mit dem Immobilien-Clip zu tun hat. Oder mit meiner Kritik an dem Missbrauchen des Fediverse für kommerzielle Werbung.

Würdest du erläutern, warum du mich fragst, welche politische Richtung die Kieler Förde ist?

@dorisheldt@norden.social

Ich habe nicht verstanden, wieso du diese Frage zur Kieler Förde schreibst. Das hatte keinen erkennbaren Zusammenhang mit deinem Immobilienangebot, das du hier bewirbst. Daher hab ich versucht, zu verstehen. Ich habe nichts erklärt.

@dorisheldt@norden.social

Wohin soll diese Frage ablenken? Um die Förde geht es hier sicher nicht.

Schleichwerbung ist hier nicht gerne gesehen. Die “Tarnung” als politischer Beitrag ist nicht wirklich gelungen, Frau Heldt.

I can’t note anything sound ‘stupid’ there.

Experiences AND memories do vanish. That’s a fact, it’s completely natural and fine and it’s not a general necessity to fight against that. I found that it is possible to accept transience.

Guess what, we can have new experiences any moment.

Spending much time and money to preserve all the present experiences without gaps and to combat the fleeting nature of all things and to capture every moment of my life for the future seems wasteful. I did this too in the past but the older I get the more I find that I’d rather spend my time in the present moment than in the archive.

Not having so much, being more. The more we collect and accumulate, the more that holds us back.

But hey, I don’t want to discourage anyone and I can understand the approach.

You deteriorate. We all deteriorate. What’s the point of that illusion of having a perfect eternal storage medium for data? It’s the experience that matters.

Maybe pay the artists?

Covfefe.

During the court trial, a witness testified that he had essentially done the same thing to her. He took her on excessively difficult hikes with inadequate equipment, then talked her into continuing, only to leave her crying and distressed in the middle of the night on the Grossglockner.

As I said, that appeals to the masses.

I described it somewhat metaphorically. I also get goosebumps repeatedly and again.

I simply noticed during several customer interactions at the hi-fi shop that some people seem to be looking for idealistic audio experiences with a fixed idea of how it should be and believe that’s a purely technical problem. As if a certain cable or amplifier could solve that.

Someone once asked me which cable he should buy to make the music sound really captivating. I dunno, maybe listen to some other music?

I had a salesperson who said that with This more expensive HDMI cable, the picture almost looks three-dimensional!